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Enhanced data envelopment analysis for sustainability assessment: A novel methodology and application to electricity technologies

  • Dades identificatives

    Identificador: PC:1818
  • Autors:

    Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez
    Ángel Galán-Martína
    Laurence Stamford
    Adisa Azapagic
  • Altres:

    Autor segons l'article: Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez; Ángel Galán-Martína; Laurence Stamford; Adisa Azapagic
    Departament: Enginyeria Química
    Autor/s de la URV: GUILLEN GOSALBEZ, GONZALO; Ángel Galán-Martína; Laurence Stamford; Adisa Azapagic
    Paraules clau: Enhanced data envelopment analysis Sustainable development DEA (data envelopment analysis)
    Resum: Quantifying the level of sustainability attained by a system is a challenging task due to the need to consider a wide range of economic, environmental and social aspects simultaneously. This work explores the application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the sustainability ‘efficiency’ of a system. We propose an enhanced DEA methodology that uses the concept of ‘order of efficiency’ to compare and rank alternatives according to the extent to which they adhere to sustainability principles. The capabilities of the proposed approach are illustrated through a sustainability assessment of different technologies for electricity generation in United Kingdom. In addition to screening the alternatives based on sustainability principles, enhanced DEA provides improvement targets for the least sustainable alternatives that, if achieved, would make them more sustainable. The enhanced DEA shows clearly the ultimate distance to sustainability, helping industry and policy makers to improve the efficiency of technologies, products and policies.
    Grup de recerca: Sustainable Computer Aided Process Engineering
    Àrees temàtiques: Enginyeria química Ingeniería química Chemical engineering
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 0098-1354
    Identificador de l'autor: n/a; n/a; 0000-0002-0973-7338; 0000-0003-2380-918X
    Data d'alta del registre: 2016-09-13
    Pàgina final: 200
    Volum de revista: 90
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enllaç font original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098135416301181?via%3Dihub
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    DOI de l'article: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2016.04.022
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2016
    Pàgina inicial: 188
    Tipus de publicació: Article Artículo Article
  • Paraules clau:

    Anàlisi d'envolupament de dades
    Desenvolupament sostenible
    Enhanced data envelopment analysis
    Sustainable development
    DEA (data envelopment analysis)
    Enginyeria química
    Ingeniería química
    Chemical engineering
    0098-1354
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